Psychology : from inquiry to understanding
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Psychology : from inquiry to understanding
（Pearson international edition）
Pearson/Allyn Bacon, c2009
Pearson international edition
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Lilienfeld provides the framework students need to go from inquiry to understanding. By encouraging students to question, and teaching students how to test their assumptions, Lilienfeld motivates students to use scientific thinking skills to better understand the complex world of psychology.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Prologue: How Psychology Became a Science
CHAPTER 1: Science and Pseudoscience in Psychology: Skills For Thinking Scientifically in Everyday Life
CHAPTER 2: Research Methods: Safeguards against Error
CHAPTER 3: Biological Psychology: The Brain-Body Communication Superhighway
CHAPTER 4: Sensation and Perception: How We Sense and Conceptualize the World
CHAPTER 5: Consciousness: Expanding the Boundaries of Psychological Inquiry
CHAPTER 6: Learning: How Nurture Changes Us
CHAPTER 7: Memory: Constructing and Reconstructing Our Pasts
CHAPTER 8: Language, Thinking, and Reasoning: Getting Inside Our Talking Heads
CHAPTER 9: Intelligence and IQ Testing: Controversy and Consensus
CHAPTER 10: Human Development: How and Why We Change
CHAPTER 11: Emotion and Motivation: What Moves Us
CHAPTER 12: Stress, Coping, and Health: The Mind-Body Interconnection
CHAPTER 13: Social Psychology: How Others Affect Us
CHAPTER 14: Personality: Who We Are
CHAPTER 15: Psychological Disorders: When Adaptation Fails
CHAPTER 16: Psychological and Biological Treatments: Helping People Change
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Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index
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